Iron Maiden, its monumental concerts around the world, its 130 million albums sold, and its singer who swallows a maroilles tart as a Sunday meal inside a northern gymnasium. Said like that, it's jarring, but it couldn't be more logical in the end. Because a little more than a month after completing the heavy metal band's 2024 tour in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bruce Dickinson spent his weekend in the North to take part in a tournament on Sunday. fencing in Faches-Thumesnil, in the south of the Lille metropolis.
Difficult to follow? Let's start again. Before becoming the voice of the legendary group which celebrated its 50th career this year, the Briton fell in love with this sport during his schooling in the United Kingdom. The passion has never left the teenager who, now 66 years old, continues to practice whenever he has the opportunity. In Paris, one of the cities where he lives, Bruce Dickinson trains in the 13th arrondissement with his French fencing master Vincent Apolaire.
